Queens of Lesbia

Los Angeles: Classic Publications, 1970.
First Edition.

17cm x 11cm. 188, [4] pages, [16] pages of colour illustrations. Pictorial wrappers.

“The passion of some women for their own sex exceeds man’s passion for man, and even man’s lust for women! Here, in shocking clarity is the look of a woman’s erotic desire for her own kind–and the frenzy of her unbridled drives!” (from rear cover) EP 601. Lesbian pulp novel from the paperback original boom of the 1950s to the 1970s. Typically formulaic, issued in recognisable series with suggestive covers and titillating titles, most were written by men under female pseudonyms and marketed to men. A smaller number of authors, some of them lesbian or bisexual women (often also writing under pseudonyms), brought narrative sincerity and psychological depth to the same commercial format, and the books found a substantial lesbian readership at a time when few other depictions of lesbian life were in print.

Minor shelf wear. Remainder saw to tail edge. Very Good Condition.

AU$100